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National Records Shattered!!

Anyone hear about the shattered National Records in girl’s high school track and field over the weekend?

Alexa Efraimson ran a 4:33.29 in the 1600m making her the fastest American high school miler of all time. http://usa.milesplit.com/articles/129530-alexa-efraimson-4-3329-national-record-for-1600#.U40h0fldV8E – This is an amazing time, but there should possibly be an asterisk next to this time. Mary Cain, also a senior decided to go Pro as a senior in high school. Since then Mary Cain is the only high school aged female to break the 4:30 mile!! http://bringbackthemile.com/athletes/detail/mary_cain – Watch for Mary Cain in the 2016 Olympics. I can imagine Alexa going to be on the short list for team USA in 2016 as well.

On another note, we have a lot of talent in Morris County, NJ (where I coach). Keep an eye out for Mount Olive’s Keturah Orji who has shattered every long and triple jump record in New Jersey. All year she has been ranked top 3 in the nation and that’s including collegiate marks! I wouldn’t be surprised if we see her make Team USA some day!

And many female athletes will continue to wait as well. It is no secret that women in sports notoriously receive a significantly less amount of media coverage than male athletes do. We’re used to that, right? We get less of everything in life like our paychecks, right? I’m impatiently waiting for the 2016 Olympics in […]

I just wanted to do a shout out to Kylene Cochrane and Sierra Castaneda for making it to the Meet of Champions!! Kylene just rebroke the West Morris Central school record in the 1600m with a time of 4:48.48 (2nd fastest time run in NJ this year)!! On Friday, Sierra broke the 5 minute mile […]